FirstNews News briefs for Feb. 16, 2009

• Ericsson CEO and President Carl-Henric Svanberg put a mostly positive spin on the future of telecom by pointing out the relative youth – roughly 10 years – of the Internet and need for billions of people to get connected, most likely via mobile broadband.

• Mobile Internet solutions providerBytemobile announced a group supply agreement with TeliaSonera in the Nordic and Baltic countries. Bytemobile also announced its 100th customer network deployment at TeliaSonera Sweden. Under the terms of the group supply agreement, TeliaSonera operating companies, beginning with Sweden, will deploy Bytemobile’s integrated content adaptation solutions to enhance the mobile Web browsing and multimedia experience of users of the TeliaSonera SurfOpen service.

• mBlox announced the launch in the United Kingdom of its mobile cross-operator “sender-pays data” trial. The trial is testing a business model for the mobile industry that allows content providers and service providers to bundle together the associated data costs for the purchase of mobile content, on behalf of the consumer. It will enable consumers to purchase data-rich content with the data cost included at the point of purchase.

• GetJar announced support for Adobe’s new over-the-air mobile runtime solution that includes the Adobe Flash Lite 3.1 Distributable Player. GetJar says it will be a major direct distributor for new games and applications that the developer community creates for the new Flash Lite runtime.